Last June, the commission rejected Netanyahu's request to finance his spending by Spencer Frederidge, after she claimed no report was made on the prime minister's property. • The committee has two retired judges and a public representative • The state comptroller: "The permit does not exceed the term of office. Government "

• Netanyahu // Photo: Mark Israel Salem

The Prime Minister's Advocates, Adv. Amit Hadad and Adv. Yossi Cohen, on Thursday, appealed to the Permit Committee with a renewed request to finance Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's legal expenses. The application is filed again after last June, the commission rejected Netanyahu's request to fund his expenses by Spencer Frederidge.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applied to the State Comptroller's Office for renewal of his permit to finance his legal expenses. State Comptroller Mathew Engelman decided that the composition of the committee members would include the 2 chairmen of the permit committee, retired judge Nechama Munitz (retired district court judge and currently arbitrator and mediator) and retired judge Shulamit Dotan (retired magistrate's court). Alongside the committee sat the public representative, Israel Portfolio.

In the month, the Netanyahu's final permit permit rejected Netanyahu's request for a personal permit to receive donations to finance his legal protection. The request was rejected after the prime minister failed to comply with a commitment given on his behalf in the High Court in March 2019, to submit to the committee details requested by him for a supplementary hearing on the application, which has already been rejected twice. The committee did not submit the snapshot requested for the prime minister's property in Israel and abroad, That is, with no exceptions (cash, bonds, real estate, etc.) and no detailed information about his relationship with potential funders was provided, and answered why he needed their donation.

In its decision, the committee noted that Netanyahu had to repay $ 300,000 he had previously received without a permit from his cousin, Nathan Milikowski. The committee has already twice rejected Netanyahu's request to receive Milikowski and businessman Partridge, and in his recent decision even ordered him to return to Milikovsky the $ 300,000 he already received from him.

In Netanyahu's vicinity, in June, they reacted to the committee's decision: "It is a shame that the committee entered into no areas of its own, took advantage of its position to exert unprecedented difficulties on the prime minister and denied him the basic right to defend himself in the legal process. Such events violate the public's trust in the system."

"The information requested by the committee is found by the State Comptroller and the law-authorized bodies - the Permit Committee is not part of the authorized bodies to review this material. There is no explanation for the committee's demands being done without authority or the motives that thwart any possible way in which the prime minister can protect himself," Netanyahu said.

The State Comptroller said: "The permit committee operates next to the state comptroller and is not subject to its decisions except in the law. In its work, the committee may refuse to grant a permit for failure to comply with any of the rules, grant a permit or a conditional permit, if it appears justified in the circumstances of the case and public. It was further stipulated that the validity of the permit would not exceed the term of government. The rules give the committee the power to revoke a permit or change it according to the circumstances. "